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The Crossgate

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 1st 2007 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.

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X: 1
T: Crossgate, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|:d>f a>d c>e a>c|B>d g>B A>d f>A|G>B e>G F>A d>F|E>e e>d (3cBA B>c|
d>f a>d c>e a>c|B>d g>B A>d f>A|G>B e>g (3fed e>c| d2 f2 d2 (3ABc :|
|:d>f a>b a>f e>d|c>e a>b a>f e>d|B>G (3Bcd g>e (3fed|c2 F2 F3 F|
G>B d>e d>B G>B|A>c e>f e>c A>c|d>c d>f (3gfe a>g|1 f2 d2 d3 A:|2 f2 d2 d2 ||

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The Crossgate sheetmusic
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The Crossgate Hornpipe

I wrote this tune after someone's goldfish died.

Put it this way: It is reasonable to suppose that literally anything one does, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night, will happen minutes after somebody's goldfish somewhere has turned belly-up or found a new home inside a cat.

This tune is named after Crossgate, a street in Durham City (UK) which contains The Elm Tree, one of Durham's session pubs. I haven't knowingly pinched the arpeggios in the first part from another tune, but wouldn't be a bit surprised if James Hill or Scott Skinner or someone else had come up with them first.

# Posted on July 1st 2007 by nicholas

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